Catherine Howard - Henry VIII's Scandalous Fifth Wife Catherine Howard Fifth Queen of King Henry VIII of England Katherine Howard. The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images Updated July 29, 2016. About Catherine Howard: Known for: short-lived marriage to Henry VIII: she was his fifth wife, and was beheaded for adultery and unchastity after less than two years of marriage Occupation: fifth queen consort to King Henry VIII of England ; previously, lady in waiting to Anne of Cleves Dates: about 1524? - February 13, 1542 (estimates of her birth year range from 1518 to 1524) Also known as: Catharine, Katherine, Katharine, Kathryn, Katheryn Background, Family: Mother: Joyce (Jocasta) Culpeper Legh, daughter of Sir Richard Culpeper (second marriage; her first to Ralph Legh) Father: Lord Edmund Howard, younger son of Thomas Howard, second Duke of Norfolk, and Elizabeth Tilney Siblings: both her parents were remarried. She had about five full siblings. Of her mother's children, Katherine had nine siblings and was the fourth child.

Elizabeth Cheney was her great-grandmother; other great-granddaughters of Elizabeth Cheney included Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour , the second and third wives of Henry VIII continue reading below our video What are the Seven Wonders of the World Catherine Howard was a first cousin of Anne Boleyn, whose mother (Elizabeth Howard, married to Thomas Boleyn) was the sister of Catherine's father Marriage, Children: husband: Henry VIII (married July 28, 1540) children: none Education: Agnes Tilney, stepmother of Catherine's father, was in charge of Catherine's upbringing and education from 1531 More About Catherine Howard: Catherine's father, Lord Edmund Howard, was a younger son, and with nine children and no right to inheritance under primogeniture, he depended on the generosity of wealthier and more powerful relatives. In 1531, through the influence of his niece, Anne Boleyn, Edmund Howard obtained a position as comptroller for Henry VIII in Calais. When her father went to Calais, Catherine Howard was sent to the home of Agnes Tilney, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, her father's stepmother.

Catherine was one of many young nobles sent to live under Agnes Tilney's supervision -- and that supervision was notably loose. Youthful Indiscretions: About 1536, while living with Agnes Tilney, Catherine Howard had a sexual relationship -- one that did not get consummated -- with a music tutor, Henry Manox (Mannox or Mannock). Agnes Tilney reportedly struck Catherine when she caught her with Manox. Henry Manox was replaced in young Catherine's affections by Frances Dereham, a secretary. Katherine Howard shared a bed at the Tilney home with Katherine Tilney, and the two Katherines were visited a few times in their bedchamber by Dereham and by Edward Malgrave, a cousin of Henry Manox, Katherine Howard's former love. Katherine and Dereham apparently did consummate their relationship, reportedly calling each other "husband" and "wife" and promising marriage -- what to the church amounted to a contract of marriage. Henry Manox heard gossip of the relationship, and reported it to Agnes Tilney, who ended the relationship.

Catherine Howard at Court: Catherine was then sent to court to serve as a lady in waiting to Henry VIII's newest (fourth) queen, Anne of Cleves , soon to arrive in England. This assignment was probably arranged by her uncle, Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk and one of Henry's advisors. Anne of Cleves arrived in England in December of 1539, and Henry may have first seen Catherine Howard at that event. At court, Catherine drew the king's attention, as he was quite quickly unhappy in his new marriage. Henry started courting Catherine, and by May was publicly giving her gifts. Anne complained of this attraction to the ambassador from her homeland. Marriage Number Five: Henry had his marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled on July 9, 1540. Henry married Catherine Howard on July 28, generously bestowing jewelry and other expensive gifts on his much-younger and very attractive bride. On their wedding day, Thomas Cromwell, who had arranged the marriage of Henry to Anne of Cleves, was executed. Catherine was publicly announced as queen on August 8.

More Indiscretions: Early the next year, Catherine began a flirtation -- perhaps more, perhaps pressured into it -- with one of Henry's favorites, Thomas Culpeper, who was also a distant relative on her mother's side, and who had a reputation for lechery. Arranging their clandestine meetings was Catherine's lady of the privy chamber, Jane Boleyn , Lady Rochford, widow of George Boleyn who had been executed with his sister Anne Boleyn . Only Lady Rochford and Katherine Tilney were permitted into Catherine's rooms when Culpeper was present. Whether Culpeper and Katherine Howard were lovers, or whether she was being pressured by him but did not acquiesce to his sexual advances, is argued by historians. Catherine Howard was even more reckless than to pursue that relationship; she brought her old lovers Henry Manox and Frances Dereham to court, as her musician and secretary. Dereham bragged about their relationship, and she may have made the appointments in an attempt to silence them about their past. Catherine Howard represented a more Catholic-leaning conservative faction.

The brother of a former maid at Agnes Tilney's house reported Catherine Howard's youthful escapades to the Protestant-leaning Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, including allegations of Catherine's precontract with Dereham. Charges On November 2, 1541, Cranmer confronted Henry with the allegations about Catherine's past and present indiscretions. Henry at first did not believe the allegations. Dereham and Culpeper confessed to their part in these relationships after being tortured, and Henry abandoned Catherine, not seeing her again after November 6. Cranmer pursued the case against Catherine zealously. She was charged with "unchastity" before her marriage, and with concealing her precontract and her indiscretions from the king before their marriage, thereby committing treason. She was also accused of adultery, which for a queen consort was also treason. A number of Katherine's relatives were also questioned about her past, and some were charged with treasonous acts for concealing Katherine's sexual past. These relatives were all pardoned, though some lost their property. Catherine and Lady Rochford were not so fortunate. on November 23, Catherine's title of queen was stripped from her.

Culpeper and Dereham were executed on December 10 and their heads displayed on London Bridge. Catherine's End On January 21, 1542, Parliament passed a bill of attainder making Katherine's actions an executable offense. She was taken to the Tower on February 10, Henry signed the bill of attainder, and she was executed on the morning of February 13. Like her cousin Anne Boleyn, also beheaded for treason, Katherine Howard was buried without any marker in the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula. During Queen Victoria's reign in the 19th century, both bodies were exhumed, identified and their resting places marked. Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford, was also beheaded and buried with Katherine Howard. Bibliography: Anne Crawford, editor. Letters of the Queens of England 1100-1547. 1997. Antonia Fraser. The Wives of Henry VIII. 1993. Alison Weir. The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1993. More women's history biographies, by name: House of Tudor | Catherine Howard Born: abt.

1520 at Lambeth, London Married: Henry VIII, on July 28, 1540 Died: February 13, 1542 at Tower of London Buried at: Chapel Royal, London Catherine Howard was the 5th wife of Henry VIII, and was born around 1520 in London. She was the 10th child of Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpepper. She was the niece of the Duke of Norfolk and first cousin of Anne Boleyn. In 1531 Catherine was sent to live with her step grandmother the Duchess of Norfolk who ran a household with children of relatives who could not afford to support their families. The Duchess spent much of her time at Court and her household was a free and easy with the result that Catherine who was head-strong and vivacious had romantic liaisons including with a music teacher Henry Mannox, and an affair with Francis Dareham the secretary of the household whom she wanted to marry on his return from a visit to Ireland. The affair ended when the Duchess found out and she was sent to the Court of Henry VIII as a lady-in-waiting to Henry�s new wife Anne of Cleves.

Catherine caught the attention of Henry who was unhappy with his arranged marriage with Anne. She was 20 years old. Henry who was nearly 50, expanding in girth with an ulcerated leg which caused him difficulty in walking, showered her with gifts. A few weeks after his marriage to Anne was annulled, Henry and Catherine were married on 28 July 1540. However, Catherine soon became repulsed by her elderly husband and she embarked on a liaison with Thomas Culpepper a distant relation. Their meetings, which became known in the court but were kept from Henry, were arranged by her lady-in-waiting Lady Rochford who was Jane Boleyn widow of George Boleyn brother of Anne Boleyn. Catherine Howard - Chere Lee Chere Lee Reign: 28 July 1540 - 23 November 1541 Spouse: Henry VIII of England Father: Lord Edmund Howard Born: c. 1524 Wingate, County Durham Died: 13 February 1542 (aged 17–18) Tower of London Religion: Catholic Catherine Howard (c.

1524 – 13 February 1542), also spelled Katherine or Katheryn,[1] was the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, and sometimes known by his reference to her as his "rose without a thorn". Catherine's birth date and place of birth are unknown (but occasionally cited as 1521 or 1525, possibly in Wingate, County Durham). She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard, a younger son of the 2nd Duke of Norfolk. This made her a first cousin of the King's second wife, Anne Boleyn. Catherine married Henry VIII on 28 July 1540, at Oatlands Palace in Surrey, almost immediately after the annulment of his marriage to Anne of Cleves was arranged. However she was beheaded after less than two years of marriage to Henry on the grounds of treason, meaning adultery committed while married to the King. Life Early life Catherine Howard was the fourth child of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper. Catherine's exact date of birth is unknown, although the year has been estimated as being after 1520, but before 1527.

She was the niece of Elizabeth Howard, who was the mother of Anne Boleyn, George Boleyn and Mary Boleyn. Catherine, as the granddaughter of the Duke of Norfolk, had an aristocratic pedigree. But her father, a younger son, was not well-off owing to primogeniture and the large size of his family, and he often begged for handouts from his more powerful relatives. His niece, Anne Boleyn, Catherine's cousin, got him a government job working for the King in Calais in 1531. At this point, young Catherine was sent to live with her step-grandmother, Agnes Tilney, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk. At Lambeth, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk ran a large household that included numerous female and male attendants, along with her many wards, usually the children of aristocratic but poor relatives who could not afford to support their families. While sending young children to be educated and trained in aristocratic households other than their own was common for centuries among European nobles, supervision at Lambeth was lax. The Dowager Duchess was often at Court and took little interest in the upbringing and education of her wards and young female attendants.

Consequently, Catherine was not as well educated as Henry's other wives, though her mere ability to read and write was impressive enough for the time.[2] Her character is often described as vivacious, but never scholarly or devout. The casual upbringing in the licentious atmosphere of the Duchess' household led to Catherine's music teacher, Henry Mannox, starting a sexual relationship with her around 1536, when she was between the ages of 11 and 16. When she became Queen, Mannox was appointed as a musician in her household. He later gave evidence in the inquiry against her. Mannox and Catherine both confessed during her adultery trial that they had engaged in sexual contact without intercourse: "At the flattering and fair persuasions of Mannox, being but a young girl, I suffered him at sundry times to handle and touch the secret parts of my body which neither became me with honesty to permit nor him to require" she said. This adolescent affair came to an end in 1538, when Catherine was pursued by a secretary of the duchess's household, Francis Dereham. They became lovers, addressing each other as "husband" and "wife".

Dereham also entrusted Catherine with various wifely duties, such as keeping his money when he was away on business. Many of Catherine's roommates among the duchess's maids of honour and attendants knew of the relationship, which was apparently ended in 1539 when the Dowager Duchess caught wind of the matter. Despite this disapproval, Catherine and Dereham may have parted with intentions to marry upon his return from Ireland, agreeing to a "precontract", as it was then known. If indeed they had exchanged vows of their intention to marry before having sexual intercourse, they would have been considered married in the eyes of the Church. Arrival at court Catherine's uncle found her a place at Henry's court. As a young and attractive lady-in-waiting to Henry's new German wife, Queen Anne of Cleves, Catherine quickly caught the eye of the King, who had displayed little interest in Anne from the start. Catherine's relatives privately doubted that the young woman was mature and intelligent enough to handle the responsibilities of being the King's mistress, as she had arrived at Court a few months earlier and was minimally educated and not particularly bright; but other factors were at play.

The memory of Anne Boleyn's execution for supposed adultery had marred the standing of the Howards (a family proud of their grand lineage) in Henry VIII's court, and the mostly Catholic Howard family (the Boleyns were the only Protestant branch on the Howard family tree) saw Catherine as a figurehead for their determination to restore the faith to England. As the King's interest in their relative grew, so did their influence. Within months of her arrival at Court, Henry bestowed gifts of land and expensive cloth upon Catherine. Marriage (1540) When Henry had his marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled on 9 July 1540, rumours swirled that Catherine was pregnant with his child. Their quick marriage merely three weeks after the annulment from Anne, in July 1540, reflected Henry's lifelong urgency to secure the Tudor succession by fathering healthy, legitimate sons, since he had only one, Edward (later Edward VI). Henry, nearing 50 and expanding in girth, showered his young bride with wealth, jewels, and fantastically expensive gifts.

War with France and the English Reformation had cost Henry the goodwill of his people, and he was suffering from a number of ailments. The presence of a young and seemingly virtuous wife in his life brought him great happiness. Her motto, "Non autre volonté que la sienne" or "No other will but his", supposedly reflected her desire to keep Henry, an ailing man three decades her senior, content. Despite her newly acquired wealth and power, however, Catherine found her marital relations unappealing. She was not pregnant upon marriage and was repulsed by her husband's obesity. He weighed around 21 stone (about 140 kilograms or 300 pounds) at the time, and had a foul-smelling, festering ulcer on his thigh that had to be drained daily. Early in 1541, she embarked upon a light-hearted romance with Henry's favourite male courtier, Thomas Culpeper, whom she had initially desired on her arrival at court two years earlier. The couple's meetings were arranged by one of Catherine's older ladies-in-waiting, Lady Rochford, the widow of Catherine's cousin George Boleyn (brother of Anne Boleyn and Mary Boleyn).

Henry and Catherine toured England together in the summer of 1541, and preparations for any signs of pregnancy (which would have led to a coronation) were in place, indicating that the married couple were sexually active with each other. However, as Catherine's extramarital liaison progressed, people who had witnessed her indiscretions at Lambeth began to contact her for favours. In order to buy their silence, she appointed many of them to her household. Most disastrously, she appointed Henry Manox as one of her musicians and Francis Dereham as her personal secretary. This miscalculation led to the charges of treason and adultery against her two years after her marriage to the King. Downfall (1541) By late 1541, the "northern progress" of England had ended, and Catherine's indiscretions rapidly became known due to John Lascelles, a Protestant reformer whose sister, Mary Hall, was a chambermaid to the Dowager Duchess; she had witnessed Catherine's sexual liaisons. Lascelles presented the information to Thomas Cranmer, then Archbishop of Canterbury and one of Henry's closest advisors.

Cranmer, aware that any precontract with Dereham would invalidate Catherine's marriage to Henry, gave Henry a letter with the accusations against his wife on 2 November 1541, as they attended an All Souls' Day Mass. Henry at first refused to believe the allegations, thinking the letter was a forgery, and requested that Cranmer should further investigate the matter. Within a few days, corroborative proof was found, including the confessions of Dereham and Culpeper after they were tortured in the Tower of London, as well as a love letter to Culpeper in Catherine's distinctive handwriting, which is the only letter of hers that still survives. Catherine was charged with treason, but she never admitted to infidelity. She did, however, admit that her behaviour prior to her marriage had been unbecoming of a lady of her rank, let alone a Queen of England. According to legend, after being ordered to keep to her rooms, Catherine briefly escaped her guard's clutches to run to the chapel where Henry was hearing Mass. She banged on the doors and screamed Henry's name, and her ghost was said to re-enact this ever since.

Eventually, she was re-taken by her guards and confined to her rooms in Hampton Court, accompanied only by Lady Rochford. However, there is considerable doubt as to the tale's authenticity, since Catherine was not fully aware of the charges against her until Cranmer and a delegation of councillors were sent to Hampton Court to question her on 7 November. Her pleas to see Henry were ignored, and Cranmer interrogated her regarding the charges. Even the staunch Cranmer found Catherine's frantic, incoherent state pitiable, saying, "I found her in such lamentation and heaviness as I never saw no creature, so that it would have pitied any man's heart to have looked upon her." He ordered the guards to remove any objects that she might use to commit suicide. While a precontract between Catherine and Dereham would have had the effect of terminating Catherine's Royal marriage, it also would have allowed Henry to annul their marriage and banish her from Court. Catherine would have been disgraced, impoverished, and exiled, but ultimately spared execution. However, she steadfastly denied any precontract, stating that Dereham had raped her.

Imprisonment and death (1541 - 1542) Catherine was stripped of her title as queen on 23 November and imprisoned in Syon Abbey, Middlesex, through the winter of 1541. Culpeper and Dereham were executed at Tyburn on 10 December 1541—the former beheaded, the latter hanged, drawn and quartered—for treasonous conduct. As was customary, their heads were placed atop London Bridge. Catherine's relatives were also detained in the Tower, except her uncle Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, who had sufficiently detached himself from the scandal. All of the Howard prisoners were tried, found guilty of concealing treason, and sentenced to life imprisonment and forfeiture of goods. In time, however, they were released with their goods restored. Catherine herself remained in suspension until Parliament passed a bill of attainder, on 21 January 1542, that made it treason—punishable by death—for a queen consort to fail to disclose her sexual history to the king within 20 days of their marriage, or to incite someone to have adultery with her.

This solved the matter of Catherine's supposed precontract and made her unequivocally guilty. Catherine was taken to the Tower of London on 10 February 1542. On 11 February, the bill of attainder received the Royal Assent, and Catherine's execution was scheduled for 7 a.m. on 13 February. The night before her execution, Catherine is said to have spent many hours practising how to lay her head upon the block. She died with relative composure but looked pale and terrified, and she required assistance to climb the scaffold. She made a speech describing her punishment as "worthy and just" and asked for mercy for her family and prayers for her soul. According to popular folklore, her last words were, "I die a Queen, but I would rather have died the wife of Culpeper." However, it is unknown whether this final declaration of love actually occurred or was merely an invention in an attempt to give Catherine's story some mark of distinction. She was beheaded with one stroke, and her body was buried in an unmarked grave in the nearby chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, where the body of her cousin, Anne Boleyn, also lay. Henry did not attend.

Catherine's body was not one of those identified during restorations of the chapel during Victoria's reign;[9] but she is commemorated on a plaque on the west wall dedicated to all those who died in the Tower. Francis I of France wrote a letter to Henry upon news of Catherine's death, regretting the "lewd and naughty behaviour of the Queen" and advising him that "The lightness of women cannot bend the honour of men". When Sir William Paget informed Francis of Catherine's misconduct, he exclaimed "She hath done wondrous naughty!" Lineage Historiography Catherine is not regarded as a particularly important character, in terms of long-lasting historical significance.

Dr Diarmaid MacCulloch of the University of Oxford compared her with her cousin, Anne Boleyn, in a 2004 review: "Katherine Howard, another royal wife to die on adultery charges, mattered only a little longer than it took Henry to cheer up after he had her beheaded: by contrast, Anne triggered the English Reformation." Catherine has been the subject of two modern biographies—A Tudor Tragedy by Lacey Baldwin Smith (1967) and Katherine Howard: A Tudor Conspiracy by Joanna Denny (2006). Both of them are more or less sympathetic, although they disagree on various important points—including Catherine's motivations, date of birth and overall character. Treatments of her life have also been given in the five collective studies of Henry's queens which have appeared since the publication of Alison Weir's The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1991) to David Starkey's Six Wives (2004.) Several of these writers have been highly critical of Catherine's conduct, if sympathetic to her eventual fate. Lacey Baldwin Smith described Catherine's life as one of "hedonism" and characterized her as a "juvenile delinquent".

Alison Weir, in her 1991 book The Six Wives of Henry VIII, had much the same judgement, describing her as "an empty-headed wanton". The general trend, however, has been more generous—particularly in the works of Lady Antonia Fraser, Karen Lindsey, David Loades, and Joanna Denny. Portraits of Catherine Howard Painters continued to include Jane Seymour in pictures of King Henry VIII years after she was dead, because Henry continued to look back on her with favour as the one wife who gave him a son; most of them copied the portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger because it was the only full-sized picture available. After Catherine Howard was executed, even the Howard family removed her picture from their family portrait gallery, because Henry never forgave her for her perfidy. Nobody dared make another portrait of her after she was dead. A portrait miniature (see above) existing in two versions by Holbein (Royal Collection and Duke of Buccleuch) is now believed by most historians to be the only image of Catherine painted from life (in the case of the Windsor version). It has been dated (from details of her dress and the technique of the miniature) to the short period when Catherine was Queen.

In it she is wearing the same large jewel as Jane Seymour in Holbein's panel portrait in Vienna. These were jewels the records show belonged to the Crown, not to any Queen personally, and there is no record of their having been removed from the treasury and given to anyone else. The pearls may tie in with a gift to Catherine from Henry in 1540, and she is the only Queen to fit the dating, whose appearance is not already known. For female sitters, duplicate versions of miniatures only exist for Queens at this period. There are no other plausible likenesses of her to compare to. Both versions have long been known as of Catherine Howard, and are so documented since 1736 (Buccleuch) and 1739? or at least 1840s for the Windsor version. For centuries, a picture by Hans Holbein was believed to be a portrait of Catherine. The image, NPG 1119 , is owned by the National Portrait Gallery in London, titled as "Unknown woman, formerly known as Catherine Howard". Some historians now doubt that the woman in the picture is Catherine.

Historian Antonia Fraser has persuasively argued that the above portrait is of Jane Seymour's sister, Elizabeth Seymour. The woman bears a remarkable resemblance to Jane (especially around the chin) and is wearing the clothes of a widow, which Catherine never had occasion to wear. Furthermore, the age of the sitter is given as twenty-one, but Catherine may never have reached her twenty-first birthday (even accepting the earliest possible date for her birth, 1520/21, Catherine would not have turned twenty-one until late in 1541 or 1542, by which time she was either imprisoned or dead). The other possibility is that the portrait shows Henry's Scottish niece, Lady Margaret Douglas, the mother-in-law of Mary, Queen of Scots. So, whilst it is almost certain that the full portrait is not Catherine Howard, but rather Henry's sister-in-law Elizabeth Seymour, the miniature shown above right is very likely to be Henry's fifth Queen.

Č Catherine 5th wife of Henry VIII Howard, Queen consort of England (1521 - 1542) - Genealogy Catherine 5th wife of Henry VIII Howard, Queen consort of England Birthdate: in Tower of London, London, England Cause of death: Plot: Chapel Royal, Chapel of Saint Peter-ad-Vincula, Tower of London, London, England Immediate Family: Queen of England, 5th Wife of King Henry viii Managed by: Feb 13 1542 - Tower of London, London, England Parents: Sir Edmund Howard, Joyce Howard Husband: Henry of England Siblings: Circa 1521 - Lambeth, London, England Death: Feb 13 1542 - Tower of London, London, England Husband: Henry Viii (King Hal King Harry Defender Of The Faith Henry The Eighth Henry Viii King Henry Viii) Tudor Son: Feb 13 1542 - Tower of London, London, England Husband: Circa 1521 - Lambeth, London, England Death: Feb 13 1542 - Tower of London, London, England Parents: Lord Edmund Howard, Jocasta (

Joyce) (Jocasta) Leigh / Howard (born Culpeper) Siblings: ...rn Howard), Ralph Leigh, Joyce Legh (born Culpeper), John (John Leghe) Leigh, Isabel Stafford (born Culpeper), Henry Howard, Charles Howa...

Circa 1521 - Lambeth, London, England Death: Feb 13 1542 - Tower of London, London, England Parents: Lord Edmund Howard, Jocasta (Joyce) (Jocasta) Leigh / Howard (born Culpeper) Siblings: ...rn Howard), Ralph Leigh, Joyce Legh (born Culpeper), John (John Leghe) Leigh, Isabel Stafford (born Culpeper), Henry Howard, Charles Howa... Feb 13 1542 - Tower of London, London, England Parents: Sir Edmund Howard, Joyce Leigh (born Culpepper) Siblings: ...dy) Howard, Ralph Leigh, Henry~ Howard, Charles~ Howard, George~ Howard, Mary Trafford, Duchess of Richmond and Summerset (born Howard), ... Feb 13 1542 - Tower of London, London, England Parents: Edmund Howard, Joyce Culpepper Siblings: ...rgaret Squire (born Howard), Henry~ Howard, Charles~ Howard, George~ Howard, Mary Trafford, Duchess of Richmond and Summerset (born Howar...

Between Jan 11 1520 and Jan 10 1521 - Lambeth, Surrey, England Death: Feb 13 1542 - Tower of London Parents: Lord Edmund Howard, Joyce Howard (born Culpepper) Brother: Charles Howard Husband: Henry Viii (King Hal King Harry Defender Of The Faith Henry The Eighth Henry Viii King Henry Viii) Tudor Circa 1521 - Lambeth, London, England Death: Feb 13 1542 - Tower of London, London, England Husband: Henry Viii Tudor Children: ...ichard Edwards, Elizabeth I Tudor, Queen of England, Henry Tudor Of England (Tudor), Stillborn Son Tudor Of England (Tudor), Edward Vi Tudor Circa 1521 - Lambeth, London, England Death: Feb 13 1542 - Tower of London, London, England Parents: stepson About Catherine Howard (5th wife of King Henry VIII) "Catherine Howard (c.1523 – 13 February 1542) was Queen of England from 1540 until 1541

, as the fifth wife of Henry VIII; sometimes known by his reference to her as his "rose without a thorn".

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Henry VIII first became attracted to the young girl in 1540, when he was seeking to end his politically motivated marriage to Anne of Cleves, to whom Catherine was a maid of honour. He had his marriage to Anne annulled on July 9, and on July 28 Henry and Catherine were privately married. He publicly acknowledged her as queen on August 8. For the next 14 months Henry appeared to be much enamoured of his bride. But in November 1541, he learned that before their marriage Catherine had had affairs: Henry Mannock, a music teacher; Francis Dereham, who had called her his wife; and her cousin, Thomas Culpeper, to whom she had been engaged. After her marriage to Henry, Catherine had made Dereham her secretary, and it is probable--though still unproved--that she had committed adultery with Culpeper. The King, initially incredulous, became incensed with these revelations. On Feb. 11, 1542, Parliament passed a bill of attainder declaring it treason for an unchaste woman to marry the king. Two days later Catherine was beheaded in the Tower of London.

Her life is recounted in Lacey Baldwin Smith's A Tudor Tragedy (1961). Source: "Catherine HOWARD" Britannica Online. [Accessed 14 February 1998]. Catherine Howard | Royal Doulton | D6692 | P M Brooks Product Tags Details Niece to the Duke of Norfolk, Catherine Howard ( 1521-1542 ) became Henry VIII's fifth wife on July 28th 1540, in a marriage arranged by her family, in 1541 Henry accused her of adultery and had her beheaded at the tower of London. This Royal Doulton small character jug of Catherine Howard is a first quality with no chips, cracks or restoration. Designer: Peter Gee Colour: Brown, gold and white Handle: An axe Series: Royalty & Henry VIII and His Six Wives Product Tags

Question: Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII was the niece of which Duke?
Answer: Norfolk